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E. S. VOTEY.

' RECORD CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.23. 916.

1,314,481. Patented Aug. 26, 191 9.

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RECORD CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED Aue.23. 191s.

PatentdAug. 26,1919.

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ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN SCOTT VOTEY, OF SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE AEOLIAN COM- PANY, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

RECORD-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN Soo'rr VOTEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Summit, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Record-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to a record cabinet which stores a maximum number of records in a minimum space and at the same time provides for convenient access thereto. The useful features and advantages of my invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from an understanding of the following description in connection with the drawings.

In these, showing only one of the forms that my invention may take,

Figure 1 is a vertical section, partly in side elevation, of a combined phonograph and record cabinet, the latter being within my invention, the drawer of said record cabinet being shown in its in position;

Fig. 2 is a partial vertical section of the same, partly in elevation, showing the drawer in its out position; and

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section and plan view on the line 33 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the spacers.

Describing now the specific devices of the drawingsl is a combined phonograph and record cabinet, my invention relating only to the latter.

The records are contained in a drawer of improved construction, sliding into and out of the cabinet compartment 2. The drawer is made up as follows: 3 is its front, having a pull or handle 4; 5 is its back, pivotally connected to the front by a pair of bars or links 6 and 7 on each side. Both may be advantageously made of sheet metal, the lower links being preferably made of angle iron, whose lowerhorizontal flanges 7 support the bottom 8 of the drawer. Cross wires 9 connect the side bars 6, 6, and the side bars 7, 7, to subdivide the drawer into individual vertical record-receiving spaces. Preferably each vertical pair of wires 9 is connected by a band 10 of suitable durable material, such as some fabric, etc., to constitute front and back guides for the indi vidual records 11 when inserting them.- Oh

viously the bands do not need to be as wide as shown, because a narrow strip down the middle will sufiice.

The drawer is designed to slide into and out of the cabinet compartment 2, as previously stated, improved means being provided for supporting it in its various positions. In the construction illustrated, there is mounted on each side of the interior of the compartment, a grooved guide 20, which is disposed at the right height to receive therein the upper side bars 6 of the drawer, and beneath each guide a strip 21 is secured to the bottom 14 of the compartment, the strips 21 su porting the rear portion of the lower bars when the drawer is closed. Both the guides 20 and the supporting strips 21 terminate at their front ends an appreciable distance short of the front edge of the said bottom 14, so that when the drawer is moved into its outer or open position, the said bars 6 and 7 will have respectively cleared the guides 20 and strips 21. The projecting, forward portion of the bottom 14 is provided with recesses for the reception of suitable rollers 16, upon which the horizontal flanges 7 of the lower bars 7 bear during the movements of the drawer; and to the free edge of said projecting portion there is connected, by means of spring hinges 13, a transverse supporting strip 12, which normally tends to assume a horizontal position co-planar with the bottom 14 and the strips 21 by reason of the pressure exerted against it by said hinges, as will be understood from Fig. 1.

The outward movement of the drawer is limited by means of a cross cleat 17 and a pair of blocks 18, the former being secured to the top member of the compartment 2 in position to be engaged by the upper end of the drawer-back 5, and the latter being fixed at opposite points to the lower portions of the sides of the compartment in position to be engaged by the projecting pivot pins 19 which connect together the adjacent ends of the parts 5 and 7, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. When this position is reached, the bars 6 and 7 will have moved beyond the guides 20 and strips 21; and since the bars are pivotally connected at their opposite ends to the front and back members 3 and 5 of the drawer, the latter, by reason of its own weight, plus that of the records 11 contained therein, will automatically t1lt or swing downward, forcing the supportlng strip 12 to move in the same direction until it rests on a pair of pro ecting stop pins 15,

a'IiiXed to the legs of the cabinet or elsewhere" suitably located, the said bars 6 and 7 forming a parallel-motion device which enables the parts 3 and 5, and the spacers 9'10 as well, to maintain their vertical position.

This tilting movement of the drawer will have the effect, on records of the same diameter, of exposing the top margin of each record above the edge of the record directly infront of it, with the result, first, that any one of the records, although in close juxtaposition, can readily be removed by pulling upwardly on its said projecting margin, and, secondly, if records be used having their titles'applied in a plurality of places around their outer margins, the titles of all the records will show, one aboveanother, in the drawer when in its open position, the front 3 of the drawer being purposely made low so as not to conceal the margins of small records. When using records of different diameter in the same drawer, the larger records will, of course, be placed in the back part of the drawer.

, In returning the drawer into its compartment, it is first liftdd into horizontal posi tion, in order to bring. the bars 6 into line with the grooves in the guides 20 after which it is pushed inward, as will be un derstood, the supporting strip 12 being automatically raised into horizontal position by its spring hinges 13 during, the lifting movement of the drawer. The open front of the compartment may then be closed by meansof the doors 22 with which it is provided.

What I claim is 1. A record cabinet having a slidable drawer embodying a front member, and a bottom pivoted to said front member and adapted to automatically assume arr-inclined position when the drawer is -moved outward, and means formaintaining said'front member substantially upright throughout the movements of the drawer.

I 2. A record cabinet having a slidable drawer embodying a front member and a bottom pivoted to said front member and adapted to automatically assume an inclined position when they drawer is moved out wardly, record spacing meanslocated at intervals longitudinally of; the drawer to receive disk records between them, and means for maintaining said front member and the record spacing means substantially upright when the drawer is 'in its; outward inclined position.

3. A record cabinet having a sliding drawer comprising a pair of end members and a bottom member pivotally connected theretog and adapted automatically to assume an inclined position when said drawer is -moved outward, means for. maintainthereto and adapted to automatically assume an inclined position when the drawer is moved outwardly, and means operative to maintain said front and back members substantially upright and parallel through out the movements of said drawer, said means including a top member pivotally connecting said front and back members.

5. A record cabinet having a drawer with an inclinable bottom which when in its out inclined position provides a support on which records are adapted to rest edge-wise in upright position, said drawer having a front and back, and means including links connecting the front and back, so that when the drawer is inclined said front and back remains substantially upright.

6. A record cabinet having a slidable drawer comprising a bottom adapted automatically to assume an inclined position when moved outwardly from said cabinet, afront section pivotally related to the bottom section, and means for maintainingthe front section and also records in said drawer substantially upright throughout the move ments of said drawer.

17. A record cabinet having a sliding drawer having a series of pivotally supported spacers therein dividing the same into individual record compartments, said drawer being adapted to assume an inclined position when moved outwardly from said cabinet; and means formaintaining said spacers substantially upright throughout the movements of said drawer.

8. A record cabinet having a sliding drawer comprising a pair of end members and a. bottom member pivotally connected thereto and adapted automatically to assume an inclined position when said drawer is moved outward, and means for maintaining said end members and the records in said drawer substantially upright and parallel throughout the movements of said drawer.

9. A record cabinet having a sliding drawer comprising front and back members and a bottom memberpivotally connected thereto and adapted automatically to assume an inclined. position when said drawer is moved outward, a series of pivotally sup ported spacers dividing said drawer into individual record compartments, and means for maintaining said front and back memberg and said spacers. substantially upright throughout the movements of said drawer.

10. A record cabinet having a drawer'with an inclinable bottom, which when in its out inclined position provides a support on which records are adapted to rest in upright position, said drawer having a front and back, means including links connecting the front and back so that when the drawer is inclined said front and back remain substantially upright, and pivotally supported spacers dividing the drawer into individual record compartments paralleling the front and back.

11. A record cabinet having a drawer with an inclinable bottom, which when in its out inclined position provides a support on which records are adapted to rest in upright position, said drawer having a front and back, means including links connecting the front and back so that when the drawer is inclined said front and back remain substantially upright, and grooved guide means at the side of the interior of the compartment, which receives the drawer, in position to receive endwise into it, the connecting links between the front and back of the drawer when the drawer in its out position has been lifted preparatory to sliding it into the cabinet.

12. A record cabinet having a slidable drawer embodying a front member, a back member, and a bottom pivoted to said front and back members to automatically assume an inclined position when the drawer is moved outward, means for limiting the outward movement of the drawer, means for supporting the drawer in its out inclined position, and means for maintaining said front and back members substantially upright throughout the movements of the drawer.

13. A record cabinet having a slidable drawer adapted to automatically tilt downward when moved outwardly of the cabinet, and means for supporting said drawer in tilted position comprising a member over which the drawer is slidable, said member being pivotally connected with the cabinet to swing downward under the weight of the drawer during the tilting movement of the latter, and stop means for limiting the downward swing of said member.

14. A record cabinet having a slidable drawer adapted to automatically tilt downward when moved outwardly of the cabinet, and means for supporting said drawer in tilted position comprising a member having a spring hinge connection with the cabinet to swing downward under the weight of the drawer during the tilting movement of the latter and to rise automatically when the drawer is moved into the cabinet, and stop means associated with said member.

15. A record cabinet having a slidable drawer embodying a back member, and a bottom pivoted to said back member to automatically assume an inclined position when the drawer is moved outward, and means for supporting said drawer in inclined position comprising a member mova'bly connected with the cabinet to swing downward under the weight of the drawer during the tilting movement of the latter, and stop means associated with said member.

16. A record caibinet having a slidable drawer embodying a back member, and a bottom pivoted to said back member to automatically assume an inclined position when the drawer is moved outward, and means for supporting said drawer in inclined position comprising a member having a spring hinge connection with the cabinet to swing downward under the weight of the drawer during the tilting movement of the latter and to rise automatically when the drawer is moved into the cabinet, and stop means associated with said member.

17. A record cabinet having a slidable drawer which is adapted to automatically tilt downward when moved outwardly of the cabinet, said drawer comprising front, back, side and bottom members all pivotally connected, means to maintain said front and back members substantially upright during the movements of the drawer, and means for supporting said drawer in its tilted position.

EDWIN SCOTT VOTEY.

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